The last thing you want to do on holiday is get hurt. Worse still when you do it to yourself, but that’s where my Meloxicam story starts. Of all things, it was the simple act of lifting two heavy bags of groceries up onto the kitchen bench where we were staying. I wasn’t aware of […]

Are there natural alternatives to aspirin? Are they safe? And do they actually work? What does the research show? That’s what you’ll discover on this page. But what brings you here today? Perhaps you (or people you care about) are taking an aspirin a day to reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke? You’ve been […]

Vioxx killed nearly 30,000 people before it was recalled. It was linked to a significantly higher risk of heart attack and heart attack deaths, along with a couple of dozen other serious side effects. Bad stuff. So it was pulled in 2004. Nine years later, Big Pharma is caught out again. This time, it was […]

Yoga Similar to Physical Therapy in Helping Low-Back Pain in a Diverse Urban Population “Results of a new [government]-funded study show yoga and physical therapy offer similar pain-relief and functional benefits to people with low socioeconomic status who had chronic low-back pain. These improvements were greater than self-education; however, they were not considered significant. These […]

“Research suggests that cannabidiol oil eases pain in a number of hard-to-treat conditions. This compound from marijuana does not make people “high.” Could people in pain use a component of cannabis as an unexpected remedy? Anything related to marijuana is often regarded with suspicion because of widespread recreational use of the plant. Nonetheless, there is […]

“Terrorists move over. There’s a far worse terror in town that is indiscriminately targeting kids and adults, killing well over 10 times more Americans a year than all terrorist attacks of the last 16 years combined. That’s correct. While politicians have spent several trillion dollars on foreign wars, they’ve distracted us from the very real […]